The Hills Of Adonis
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The Hills Of Adonis
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-08
The Hills Of Adonis written by Colin Thubron and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Travel categories.
For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the land's ancient cults. He visited almost every place of cultural importance, and lived with the people along his way, recording a country of outstanding natural scenery, rich with a unique medley of races and religions. The Hills of Adonis is both a travel book and a personal journal; for the quest is the search for meaning, a reflection on faith and reason and a poem on the joy and complexity of living.
The Hills Of Adonis
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Hills Of Adonis written by Colin Thubron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Aphrodite (Greek deity) categories.
The Hills Of Adonis
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Hills Of Adonis written by Colin Thubron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Lebanon categories.
Adonis Baal And Astarte
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Author : Sir George Francis Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
Adonis Baal And Astarte written by Sir George Francis Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with categories.
The Flowers Of Adonis
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Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
language : en
Publisher: Severn House Pub Limited
Release Date : 1986-01-01
The Flowers Of Adonis written by Rosemary Sutcliff and has been published by Severn House Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with categories.
The Gardens Of Adonis
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Author : Marcel Detienne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Gardens Of Adonis written by Marcel Detienne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
The Rebirth Of Adonis
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Author : Helen Whitehouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
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The Acts Of Adonis The Great King Of Bull
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Author : King of Bull Adonis the Great
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1820
The Acts Of Adonis The Great King Of Bull written by King of Bull Adonis the Great and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1820 with categories.
The Birth Of Adonis
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Author : Alexander Haggerty Krappe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Birth Of Adonis written by Alexander Haggerty Krappe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Adonis (Greek deity) categories.
The Gardens Of Adonis
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Author : Marcel Detienne
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Gardens Of Adonis written by Marcel Detienne and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.